441 Quotes by Emily Brontë

Oh! dreadful is the check—intense the agony—When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see;When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again;The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.

Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair. And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish: they did not melt.

J'ai rêvé que je dormais de mon dernier sommeil à côté d'elle, mon cœur immobile contre le sien, ma joue glacée contre la sienne

Pero no tendrá usted ganas, señor Lockwood, de oírme moralizar. Usted es tan capaz como yo de juzgar todo esto por sí mismo, o por lo menos se creerá usted capaz de hacerlo, que viene a ser lo mismo.

I'm not going to act the lady among you, for fear I should starve .

Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on my lips.

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

I got the sexton, who was digging Linton’s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again—it is hers yet—he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it...

It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.